I agree and strongly urge our representatives to not allow vaccine mandates for the following reasons: 

• Informed medical consent includes the right of individuals to accept or to decline a pharmaceutical product or medical intervention. This right has been universally affirmed as a right by human ethicists, medical societies, Virginia regulation, institutional patient bills of rights, and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• phase III clinical trials for the available COVID-19 shots will not be completed until April 6, 2023 (Pfizer/BioNTech) Feb 14, 2023 (Moderna) and January 3, 2023 (Johnson and Johnson). 
• These are new pharmaceutical products and there are no animal studies or long term safety profiles. It is not known if these experimental products may cause autoimmune disease, allergy, cancer, reproductive harm, or cardiac, vascular or neurodevelopmental disorders. 
• The natural immunity of those who have recovered from COVID-19 has been shown to be robust.
• Vaccinated individuals are capable of contracting the virus and transmitting it to others. 
• In June, the CDC reported a "likely association" between injection with the mRNA COVID-19 shot and heart inflammation. The FDA required that a warning about myocarditis and pericarditis be added to the manufacturer's insert. These are inflammatory conditions that can lead to death. Individuals have the right to decide whether the risks associated with this product are ones they are willing to accept for themselves and their child(ren).